I made my own Git

kept by eddie jan 28

A developer documents building a custom version control system called tvc in Rust, learning git internals through reconstruction.

Git Is Not Fine
Git's immutable commit model makes stacked PRs, async workflows, and partial-state editing genuinely painful despite its success as a distributed source store.
also on Mercurial, #version-control, #git, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
What's the best programming language for coding agents?
Dan Luu's empirical tests with LLMs on Zstd and Pandoc implementations show that language popularity weakly correlates with better outcomes, but claims about dynamic or token-efficient languages being superior for coding agents do not hold across non-trivial tasks.
also on zstd, #rust, #programming-languages, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
Show HN: Turbolite – a SQLite VFS serving sub-250ms cold JOIN queries from S3
Turbolite is a SQLite VFS serving sub-250ms cold JOIN queries from S3 using B-tree-aware page grouping and compression.
also on zstd, #rust, #developer-tools
GitHub - Ataraxy-Labs/sem: Semantic version control => entity-level diffs, blame, and impact analysis on top of git. 26 languages via tree-sitter. Built for coding agents.
sem is an open-source CLI that replaces line-level git diffs with entity-level awareness (functions, classes, methods) using tree-sitter parsing, designed for both human developers and AI coding agents.
also on #version-control, #git, #developer-tools
Documentation · oak
Oak is a version-control and storage layer built for AI coding agents, offering branch-per-session workflows, lazy mounts for instant monorepo access, and full git export for data portability.
also on #version-control, #software-engineering, #developer-tools